This melancholic painting is permeated with a humid foggy atmosphere of greys and greens. The canvas is occupied by blurred forms in the palette of greys that remained a constant throughout the artist’s work, applied with a loose, assertive, undulating brushwork, driven by a movement that is by no means the fruit of chance, but is, on the contrary, the product of an elaborate process of creation. This quasi cubist landscape is composed of geometric forms in which the linear edges and planes of the houses merge with the monochrome background.
A major name in post-war painting from Galicia, Grandío often played with the dissolution of forms that bordered on abstraction although without ever losing touch with the tangible world. The artist centred his practice on the figure and on still lifes, though he would never abandon the representation of landscape.